Subject: Re: G3 killed me (was: BootX ide/OF interaction (or lack therof
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: MAZAfsckER <green@donnelly.cc.ks.us>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/05/1999 20:56:06
Yes. but I have only netbsd installed.
how can I install the system disk, I don't have MACOSX.
do you know whether it writes all those patches to nvram.?
if yes, could you please send me the output on 'printenv' ?
thanks in advance.


Regards,

Igor N. Green

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Chris Tribo wrote:

-->on 12/5/99 5:42 PM, MAZAfsckER at green@donnelly.cc.ks.us wrote:
-->
-->> Hello.
-->> Even if I had the ability to to install the mulibooter from MacOS I
-->> wouldn't find it:
-->> check: http://www.linuxppc.org/userguide/of.html
-->> it says:
-->> [..]
-->> Those machines that can run Rhapsody can use Multibooter instead of Boot
-->> Variables. It's available from
-->> ftp://ftp.apple.com/devworld/Rhapsody/UsefulStuff, and is
-->> actually preferable to Boot Variables in Apple G3 machines since it
-->> applies some patches to OF.
-->> [..]
-->> this link is outdated.
-->> 
-->> it says it applies some pathes to G3's OF.
-->> which? and where  can I find them..?
-->> so far I'm pretty familiar with OF, I need just some piece of code in
-->> FORTH to add to nvram.
-->> 
-->> it can't be that I'm the only one who has similar problems with G3.
-->> if someone is using multibooter, please send me your OF output when you
-->> run 'printenv'.
-->> 
-->> thanks a lot for any help.
-->> 
-->> 
-->> Regards,
-->> 
-->> Igor N. Green
-->
-->    Sorry for the confusion, you mis-read what I was saying. Multibooter is
-->no more. It has been replaced by a utility called System Disk for Mac OS X.
-->Which is available off of Apple's FTP site under devworld. System Disk
-->applied the same OF patch that Multibooter did to my 2.0f1. I just haven't
-->got the change to try booting yet.
-->
-->    Chris
-->
-->
-->-- 
-->    "I use to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure..."
-->